Anatomy and Physiology Workbook For Dummies

An excellent primer for learning the human body An anatomy and physiology course is required for medical and nursing students as well as for others pursuing careers in healthcare. Anatomy & Physiology Workbook For Dummies is the fun and easy way to get up to speed on anatomy and physiology facts and concepts. This hands-on workbook provides students with useful exercises to practice identifying specific muscle groups and their functions, memory exercises, as well as diagrams and actual demonstrations that readers can personally enact to illustrate the concepts.

Table of Contents:
Introduction 1 About This Book 1 Conventions Used in This Book 1 Foolish Assumptions 2 How This Book Is Organized 2 Part I: Building Blocks of the Body 2 Part II: Weaving It Together: Bones, Muscles, and Skin 2 Part III: Feed and Fuel: Supply and Transport 3 Part IV: Survival of the Species 3 Part V: Mission Control: All Systems Go 3 Part VI: The Part of Tens 3 Icons Used in This Book 3 Where to Go from Here 4 Part I: Building Blocks of the Body 5 Chapter 1: The Chemistry of Life 7 Building from Scratch: Atoms and Elements 7 Compounding Chemical Reactions 10 Cycling through Life: Metabolism 15 Answers to Questions on Life’s Chemistry21 Chapter 2: The Cell: Life’s Basic Building Block 23 Gaining Admission: The Cell Membrane 23 Aiming for the Nucleus 26 Looking Inside: Organelles and Their Functions 27 Putting Together New Proteins 31 Cycling Along: Grow, Rest, Divide, Die 33 Answers to Questions on the Cell 35 Chapter 3: Divide and Conquer: Cellular Mitosis 37 The Mitotic Process 37 Waiting for action: Interphase 38 Sorting out the parts: Prophase 38 Dividing at the equator: Metaphase 38 Packing up to move out: Anaphase 38 Pinching off: Telophase 39 Splitting up: Cytokinesis 39 What Can Go Wrong 42 Answers to Questions on Mitosis 44 Chapter 4: The Study of Tissues: Histology 47 Getting Under Your Skin 47 Making a Connection: Connective Tissue 50 Flexing It: Muscle Tissue 53 Getting the Signal Across: Nerve Tissue 54 Answers to Questions on Histology 56 Part II: Weaving It Together: Bones, Muscles, and Skin 59 Chapter 5: A Scaffold to Build On: The Skeleton 61 Understanding Dem Bones 61 Boning Up on Classifications, Structures, and Ossification 63 Axial Skeleton: Keeping It All in Line 69 Making a hard head harder 69 Putting your backbones into it 70 Appendicular Skeleton: Reaching Beyond Our Girdles 79 Arthrology: Articulating the Joints 82 Answers to Questions on the Skeleton 87 Chapter 6: Getting in Gear: The Muscles 93 Flexing Your Muscle Knowledge 93 Classifications: Smooth, Cardiac, and Skeletal 95 Contracting for a Contraction 97 Pulling Together: Muscles as Organs 99 Assuming the Right Tone 100 Leveraging Muscular Power 101 What’s In a Name? Identifying Muscles 104 Answers to Questions on Muscles 109 Chapter 7: It’s Skin Deep: The Integumentary System 113 Dermatology Down Deep 113 Epidermis: Don’t judge this book by its cover 114 Dermis: It’s more than skin deep 115 Touching a Nerve in the Integumentary System 119 Accessorizing with Hair, Nails, and Glands 120 Wigging out about hair 120 Nailing the fingers and toes 121 Sweating the details 121 Getting an earful 122 Answers to Questions on the Skin 125 Part III: Feed and Fuel: Supply and Transport 127 Chapter 8: Oxygenating the Machine: The Respiratory System 129 Breathing In Oxygen, Breathing Out CO2 129 Inhaling the Basics about the Respiratory Tract 132 Knowing about the nose (and sinuses) 132 Dealing with throaty matters 134 Going deep inside the lungs 137 Damaging Air 139 Answers to Questions on the Respiratory System 141 Chapter 9: Fueling the Functions: The Digestive System 143 Digesting the Basics: It’s Alimentary! 143 Nothing to Spit At: Into the Mouth and Past the Teeth 145 Entering the vestibule 146 Moving along the oral cavity 147 The tongue 147 The salivary glands 148 Stomaching the Body’s Fuel 151 Breaking Down the Work of Digestive Enzymes 154 Small intestine 154 Liver 155 Pancreas 156 Large intestine 157 Answers to Questions on the Digestive Tract 159 Chapter 10: Spreading the Love: The Circulatory System 163 Moving to the Beat of a Pump 163 Finding the Key to the Heart’s Chambers 166 The atria 166 The ventricles 167 Conducting the Heart’s Music 170 Riding the Network of Blood Vessels 172 Beating from the Start: Fetal Circulation 174 Answers to Questions on the Circulatory System 178 Chapter 11: Keeping Up Your Defenses: The Lymphatic System 181 Duct, Duct, Lymph 181 Poking at the Nodes 184 Having a Spleen-ded Time with the Lymphatic Organs 187 The spleen 188 T cell central: The thymus gland 188 Opening wide and moving along: The tonsils and Peyer’s patches 189 Answers to Questions on the Lymphatic System 192 Chapter 12: Filtering Out the Junk: The Urinary System 195 Examining the Kidneys, the Body’s Filters 195 Going molecular 196 Focusing on filtering 196 Getting Rid of the Waste 199 Surfing the ureters 199 Ballooning the bladder 199 The male and female urethras 199 Spelling Relief: Urination 201 Answers to Questions on the Urinary System 203 Part IV: Survival of the Species 205 Chapter 13: Why Ask Y?: The Male Reproductive System207 Identifying the Parts of the Male Reproductive System 207 Packaging the Chromosomes for Delivery 211 Answers to Questions on the Male Reproductive System 217 Chapter 14: Carrying Life Forward: The Female Reproductive System 219 Identifying the Female Reproductive Parts and Their Functions 219 Making Eggs: A Mite More Meiosis 224 Making Babies: An Introduction to Embryology 226 Growing from Fetus to Baby 227 Growing, Changing, and Aging 229 Answers to Questions on the Female Reproductive System 231 Part V: Mission Control: All Systems Go 235 Chapter 15: Feeling Jumpy: The Nervous System 237 Building from Basics: Neurons, Nerves, Impulses, Synapses 238 Neurons 238 Nerves 239 Impulses 240 Synapses 241 Minding the Central Nervous System and the Brain 243 Spinal cord 244 Brain 245 Medulla oblongata 245 Pons 245 Midbrain 245 Cerebellum 246 Diencephalon 246 Cerebrum 246 Medulla 247 Ventricles 247 Taking Side Streets: The Peripheral Nervous System 251 Keep Breathing: The Autonomic Nervous System 253 Coming To Your Senses 255 Eyes 256 Ears 256 Answers to Questions on the Nervous System 261 Chapter 16: Raging Hormones: The Endocrine System 265 No Bland Glands 265 Mastering the Ringmasters 267 Supporting Cast of Glandular Characters 270 Topping off the kidneys: The adrenal glands 270 Thriving with the thyroid 271 Pairing up with the parathyroid 271 Pinging the pineal gland 271 Thumping the thymus 271 Pressing the pancreas 272 Dealing with Stress: Homeostasis 274 Answers to Questions on the Endocrine System 277 Part VI: The Part of Tens 281 Chapter 17: Ten Study Tips 283 Chapter 18: Ten (Plus One) Terrific Online Resources 287 Index 291

About the Author :
Janet Rae-Dupree has been covering science and technology in Silicon Valley since 1993 for a number of publications, including U.S. News & World Report, BusinessWeek, the San Jose Mercury News, and the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal. She was a frequent guest on cable channel Tech TV’s “Silicon Spin” technology talk show, and she was part of the Pulitzer Prize-winning team at the Los Angeles Times covering the city’s riots in 1992. During the 2005–2006 academic year, Janet was a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University, where she studied human biology and researched innovation and market transfer. She freelances for various publications, working from her home in Half Moon Bay, California, where she lives with husband, Dave Dupree, and their 9-year-old son, Matthew (although a 19-year-old calico cat named Trillian actually rules the roost). Pat DuPree taught anatomy/physiology, biology, medical terminology, and environmental science for 24 years at several colleges and universities in Los Angeles County. She holds two undergraduate life science degrees and a master’s degree from Auburn University and conducted cancer research at Southern Research Institute in Birmingham, Alabama, before joining the Muscogee Health Department in Columbus, Georgia. In 1970, she moved to Redondo Beach, California, where she was a university instructor and raised her two sons, Dave Dupree and Mark DuPree. Now Pat is retired and lives on lovely Pine Lake in rural Georgia with her husband, Dr. James E. DuPree. Janet Rae-Dupree has been covering science and technology in Silicon Valley since 1993 for a number of publications, including U.S. News & World Report, BusinessWeek, the San Jose Mercury News, and the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal. She was a frequent guest on cable channel Tech TV’s “Silicon Spin” technology talk show, and she was part of the Pulitzer Prize-winning team at the Los Angeles Times covering the city’s riots in 1992. During the 2005–2006 academic year, Janet was a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University, where she studied human biology and researched innovation and market transfer. She freelances for various publications, working from her home in Half Moon Bay, California, where she lives with husband, Dave Dupree, and their 9-year-old son, Matthew (although a 19-year-old calico cat named Trillian actually rules the roost). Pat DuPree taught anatomy/physiology, biology, medical terminology, and environmental science for 24 years at several colleges and universities in Los Angeles County. She holds two undergraduate life science degrees and a master’s degree from Auburn University and conducted cancer research at Southern Research Institute in Birmingham, Alabama, before joining the Muscogee Health Department in Columbus, Georgia. In 1970, she moved to Redondo Beach, California, where she was a university instructor and raised her two sons, Dave Dupree and Mark DuPree. Now Pat is retired and lives on lovely Pine Lake in rural Georgia with her husband, Dr. James E. DuPree.